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To: Kevin Podsiadlik who wrote (133604)	10/25/2001 10:20:47 PM
From: craig crawford	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 164684

>> Nope, not quite. The real reason was that apart from Pearl Harbor and some skirmishes in the Aleutians, the war never came to American soil. Europe was devastated because that's where the (land) war was. Simple as that. << of course it couldn't have had anything to do with the fact that while europe was embroiled in both world wars for a couple of years we were busy selling arms and supplies to europe and getting rich in the process. of course we also had a couple more years to train, mobilize, and build up our forces for war. and of course the warring factions in europe weren't weakened after fighting bloody battles while we were building our strength over here an ocean away. nah, that couldn't have had anything to do with it. it was all to do with the fact that it wasn't fought on our own soil. uh huh. >> Would you have preferred we wait until the war eventually came to us and we had to start fighting in our own streets? (Never happen, you say? Never is a long, long time...) << why don't you explain exactly how the war was going to come over here and threaten us? i need details, not some comment like the one from victor about belgium. i'm waiting for someone to tell me how the evil imperialists were going to march across the ocean and attack us when they clearly had their hands full in their own hemisphere. then i want you history experts to tell me how we were so much better off weakening the balance of power in europe and asia by defeating hitler and tojo and giving rise to even larger monsters such as stalin & mao, pol pot, etc. germany was a natural buffer between western europe and russia. we eliminated one evil empire (nazi germany) in favor of sparing another (stalin). we brought the japanese to their knees, so then there was no counter balance to murderers like mao. so tell me how we made out so well preventing the war coming to us when krushcev and his comrades ended up with 20-25,000 icbm's pointed at us. tell me how bringing the japanese to their knees didn't help to strengthen communist china and give rise to the blood stained hands of mass murder mao. do enlighten us all you foreign policy scholars!